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2020-11-10 18:55
Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards receives about 1900 submissions
TEHRAN – The organizers of the 13th edition of the Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards, Iran’s most lucrative literary prize, announced on Tuesday that so far it has received 1879 titles of books.
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2020-10-26 19:18
War literature under spotlight at Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards
TEHRAN – The organizers of the 13th edition of the Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards, Iran’s most lucrative literary prize, announced on Monday that books written on the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, which is known as the Sacred Defense in Iran, will be reviewed this year to honor top works of the past four decades.
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2020-10-13 18:46
Resistance filmfest to honor best adaptations of Sacred Defense books
TEHRAN – The 16th Resistance International Film Festival announced on Tuesday that the best screen and TV adaptions of books on the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, which is known as Sacred Defense in Iran, will be honored in a new special section this year.
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2020-09-27 21:15
No doubt tourism development will promote culture of tolerance: minister
TEHRAN – Iranian tourism minister Ali-Asghar Mounesan has said that the development of tourism will lay the ground for promoting the culture of tolerance both on national and international levels.
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2020-09-25 21:10
Eight museums, featuring Sacred Defense scenes, relics inaugurated
TEHRAN – A total of eight museums dedicated to the Sacred Defense (the 1980-1988 Iraqi imposed war) were inaugurated across the country during a ceremony through a video conference on Wednesday.
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2020-09-22 21:30
Sacred Defense properties eligible for cultural heritage status
TEHRAN – Some 25 immovable properties related to the 1980-1988 Iraqi imposed war, known as the Sacred Defense, have been identified to be eligible for designation as national cultural heritage.
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2020-09-22 11:42
Rouhani: Nation’s growing wisdom ‘fruit of Sacred Defense’
TEHRAN — President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that the growing wisdom of the Iranian nation against the enemies is a result of their victory in the Sacred Defense as well as forty years of resistance against the enemies’ plots.
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2020-09-21 21:04
Ayatollah Khamenei dispels misperceptions about Sacred Defense
TEHRAN – During a speech on the occasion of the beginning of the Sacred Defense on Monday, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei addressed a variety of issues concerning the eight-year war the former Iraqi regime imposed on Iran.
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2020-09-21 18:24
Photo exhibit “For Khorramshahr” opens at Iranian Artists Forum
TEHRAN – A group photo exhibition named “For Khorramshahr” is currently underway at the Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran.
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2020-09-21 18:12
IRGC chief says U.S. is rotten from within
TEHRAN — The chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has said that the United States is rotten from within and isolated from without.
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2020-09-21 18:10
We won’t let Sacred Defense get distorted, says military chief
TEHRAN — Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri has said the Islamic Republic is determined to preserve the history of the Sacred Defense (Iran-Iraq war) and defend it against any misrepresentation and distortion.
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2020-09-21 18:07
Iran honors over one million war veterans
TEHRAN — Iran on Monday held a ceremony to honor more than one million war veterans during the eight years of the Sacred Defense.
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2020-09-21 11:29
Iran clinched luminous victory in Iraq’s imposed war: Leader
TEHRAN — Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says the victory of the Islamic Republic in Saddam Hussein’s war against Iran in the 1980s is as bright as the sun.
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2020-09-14 19:00
Abadan Museum Garden to be inaugurated in Sacred Defense Week
TEHRAN – A museum dedicated to the Sacred Defense (the 1980-1988 Iran–Iraq war) will be inaugurated in the southwestern city of Abadan on September 23 on the occasion of the Sacred Defense Week (starting September 21).
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2020-09-13 20:30
Tehran to host online meeting on tourism capacities of Islamic revolution, Sacred Defense
TEHRAN – An online meeting on the tourism capacities of the Islamic revolution and the Iran–Iraq war, known as the Sacred Defense, will be held in Tehran on Thursday on the occasion of the Sacred Defense Week.
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2020-09-12 19:14
Resistance festival announces lineup for “Festival of Festivals”
TEHRAN – A lineup of 12 films has been selected to go on screen in the Festival of Festivals section of the 16th Resistance International Film Festival, the organizers have announced.
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2020-07-19 18:40
Books on Iran-Iraq war published in English
TEHRAN – Four books on the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, which is known as Sacred Defense in Iran, have been published in English.
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2020-06-20 00:01
Martyrs Bakeri’s paternal house added to national heritage list
TEHRAN – The paternal house of the famed Iranian martyrs Mehdi, and Hamid Bakeri, has recently been inscribed on the National Heritage list.
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2020-06-02 02:18
More Sacred Defense museums to be inaugurated
TEHRAN – Eleven museums dedicated to the Iran-Iraq 1980-1988 war, which is called Sacred Defense in the Islamic Republic, will be inaugurated by the end of the current Iranian calendar year 1399 (March 20, 2021), IRNA reported.
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2020-02-01 18:31
Culture ministry to unveil plays on war heroes Monday
TEHRAN – The General Office for Dramatic Arts at the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance is scheduled to unveil a collection of plays on Iranian veterans martyred during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war on Monday.
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2019-11-23 18:30
Tehran Symphony Orchestra to observe Sacred Defense
TEHRAN – The Tehran Symphony Orchestra will observe the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war by performing a piece composed by Loris Tjeknavorian for the event that is called the Sacred Defense in Iran.
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2019-11-08 18:31
Liberation of Khorramshahr Theater Festival opens in Arvand Free Zone
TEHRAN – The 22nd edition of the Liberation of Khorramshahr Theater Festival opened in the Arvand Free Zone in southwest Iran on Wednesday.
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2019-10-05 17:22
Leader says Sacred Defense must not be forgotten
TEHRAN - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said that the sacrifices made during the Sacred Defense against the invading army of Saddam Hussein in the 1980s must not be forgotten or denied.
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2019-09-22 19:35
Iran displays Bavar-373 missile system in military parade
TEHRAN – In a military parade in south of Tehran on Sunday, the Iranian military displayed the Bavar-373 air defense missile system.
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2019-09-21 18:29
War tourism to be expanded in Khorramshahr
TEHRAN – War tourism, a kind of recreational travel to active or former war zones for purposes of sightseeing or historical study, is intended to be expanded in the city of Khorramshahr, a symbol of resistance during the 1980–1988 war against Iraqi invaders.
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2019-05-24 20:30
Khorramshahr liberation is an example to follow: cleric
TEHRAN – An interim Tehran Friday preacher has said that the liberation of Khorramshahr in 1982 from Saddam Hussein forces is an example to follow.
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2019-05-24 20:29
Shamkhani: Khorramshahr legacy got us through 40 years of economic war
TEHRAN – “The legacy of the liberation of Khorramshahr helped us make victory out of 40 years of military combat, sanctions, terrorism, and economic war,” the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council wrote in a message on the anniversary of the liberation of Khorramshahr from Saddam Hussein’s invading army back in May 1982.
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2019-05-24 19:32
‘Neither U.S. nor its allies dare to launch war on Iran’
TEHRAN – A high-ranking Iranian military official has underlined Iran's high deterrence power, saying this has made the U.S. and its allies avoid a military conflict against the country.
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2019-04-10 18:22
Tehran foundation honors Sacred Defense artists
TEHRAN -- The Revayat Cultural Foundation has honored a number of artists of the Iran-Iraq 1980-1988 war, which is called “Sacred Defense” in Iran, in a ceremony held on Tuesday.
